Actually I cast on these socks over a year ago (best guess - November of 2023), knit 9 rows of the ribbing and then just sort of forgot about them. I discovered them when I was setting up my project box for Tessellation Nation. The project was hiding in a Harris Tweed project bag that I had purchased from The Woolly Thistle. When I had stashed it in the project bag I had failed to stash the yarn label with the yarn, so the first thing I did was hunt that down. I have a large zip lock bag that has the Janel Laidman patterns along with yarn and that is where I found the yarn label, although I did go down a rabbit hole because there was a yarn label that had Taliesin Sock on it. That yarn was used for the Damselfly Socks. This yarn is Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in the Flashdance colorway. The original skein was a total loss due to evil bugs, so it was pitched. Fortunately I was able to procure another one. The yarn does not match what is in the photo, but some sleuthing on Ravelry (looking at project pages for the pattern) allowed me to make the match.
I did not work the Latvian braid as she called for in the pattern (and in the video link she provided), with a second strand of yarn. I worked a Latvian braid the way I learned how, where you make a stitch, put it back on the left hand needle, then knit into the back of the second stitch, and the front of the first stitch and drop them both off the left hand needle. Then you transfer the first stitch on the right hand needle to the left hand needle as if to knit and repeat. A video by Romi showed me how to join when I got to the end of the round. You do end up with an extra stitch, so I did a decrease at the beginning of my second needle (I work on two circulars). I also changed out the beads as I wasn’t crazy about the ones that were provided with the pattern. Fortunately I have an excellent bead stash.
Pattern: Taliesin Sock by Janel Laidman
Yarn: Madelinetosh Tosh Sock
Needle: US 1 (2.25 mm0
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